Word: clay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Clay Courts...
...when he brought his game to Harvard, he encountered trouble. Most Eastern colleges play on clay courts, and the only comparable composition at Harvard was the Palmer Dixon indoor courts which the squad used only in bad weather...
...used to pray for rain," says Levin. "The California courts were so fast that all you really needed was a good serve and volley to be a decent player. The clay courts slowed the game down considerably, so there was an element of craftiness that I hadn't needed before...
...consolation, moral standards in Washington have rarely been higher than they are today. For most of the last century, many famous politicians were plainly crooks. During Andrew Jackson's fight against the Second Bank of the U.S., Daniel Webster, Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun sold their votes and oratory to the bank. In the Civil War, great fortunes were hatched from corrupt federal contracts. Early in the 20th century, the National Association 'of Manufacturers bought Congressmen and influenced appointments to key committees. Nothing since has matched the gall of Harding's Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall...
Nobby foreheads and fishlike smiles of a large group of busts portraying the politicians of the Louis Philippe government dominate the exhibit. Here Daumier's style stands out. Pinching the features into blobs and twists, he skillfully expresses a particular miser or nearsighted fool. Originally molded in unbaked clay and painted as studies for satirical lithographic portraits, these small caricatures look like papier mache puppet heads. Four of the 36 original brown heads are exhibited here for the first time in the United States. The other 32 politicians appear at the Fogg in bronze or terra cotta casts...